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[Joel Wealands]

I've been trouble shooting this laptop for the past few weeks starting it up in safe mode checking absolutely everything, and I can't seem to figure out the issue with this acer laptop as it was dropped by my brother I'm assuming it's a motherboard issue of some sort. Please help me! 

[gnomik]

Judging by the error, if it was dropped, the sata port could be damaged. Does the hdd show in bios?

[Joel Wealands]

Yeah it does which is why I'm so confused

[gnomik]

5 minutes ago, Joel Wealands said:

Yeah it does which is why I'm so confused

Have you tried to install anything? Or plug the hdd in another computer, to see if it shows in windows?

[Joel Wealands]

Okay I'll give some back story, this ssd was in my old laptop that's power button broke so I moved it to this laptop that had been dropped I've tested the ssd inside this other laptop still gets recognised I honestly think it might be a windows problem since it was a windows 10 ssd to begin with and I put a cd in to fix windows 7. Im not sure what I should do.

[Joel Wealands]

I've also attempted to install windows xp but now I'm trying windows 8.1 it's just taking forever to make an iso for it.

[gnomik]

Is it a sata ssd or mini pcie?

[Joel Wealands]

I'm also wondering if I do a bios update it might help fix this issue? But I'm not sure how to do that.

[Joel Wealands]

[gnomik]

I doubt that a bios update would fix it, since it does show in bios. Can you boot your laptop from anything at all?

[Joel Wealands]

Uhm I've tried using multiple hard drives inside it but non of them worked, I've attempted to use them in another pc, also ran diagnostics on my friends computer that was holding the files inside of the ssd and you could access them but it wasn't a bootable drive.

[gnomik]

I have no suggestions then, my guess is a damaged motherboard. But does it boot form a flash drive or a dvd?

[Joel Wealands]

Boots from a flash drive 

[Joel Wealands]

if I put a iso on a usb it'll overwright the ssd correct? 

[gnomik]

8 minutes ago, Joel Wealands said:

if I put a iso on a usb it'll overwright the ssd correct? 

If you install windows from a flash drive it will overrite the ssd, yes.

[Joel Wealands]

I'll give that a shot next time I'm home.

[Joel Wealands]

Solution to my problem was replacing the ram, and putting a hard drive that already had windows installed.